Hi everybody this is Gatside it's been less than a year since I had this lovely gentleman on

deacon Calvin Robinson how you doing sir I am very well all things considered thank you. So the reason why I asked you I mean usually when I invite guests back a bit more time elapses before they return on the show in your your case though, you've gone through a very difficult ordeal recently

that necessitated that I invite you back.

Please tell us about it.

Well, it wasn't difficult, It's just a bit dramatic.

I got fired from my job two days ago.

On the day I was in shock, it was quite a thing.

But the next day I woke up feeling blessed, actually, not just because I'm liberated from the position, but also just a reminder that I'm healthy, I've got my friends and my family around me, I'm in a good place, relatively speaking.

These aren't, you know, it's not the end of the world really.

I just lost a job.

Well, you know, that attitude of sort of existential gratitude suggests that you may not really need to read my latest book on happiness because I exactly talk about that that whenever we face some sort of calamity we can always use the mindset whereby we can

textualize whatever we're currently facing and I'm not

minimizing it getting fired is a traumatic thing but when you put it in the

greater hole you can still walk away feeling smiley. Is this a mindset

that you've always had or did you have to cultivate that mindset?

It comes from my faith. You know, the first thing I do when I wake up is I say my prayers and I remind myself that there is something

greater than me out there and it's God and it's

him that blesses me with my life and all the good things in my life.

So that constant reminder is what's really framed in this mindset.

There's nothing to do with me.

It's him. Wow. Okay, so

but walk us through the details for the people who don't know. First, you know, the

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